Hi, fzort!
I don't even see all those diaries from proclus thanks to
the rating system.

Sorry, parsing English is even more ambiguous than parsing C++.

The transitive verb "explain" can have a direct object (the
thing being explained) and an indirect object (the recipient
of the explanation.) "She explained me" makes "me" the
direct object, that is, the thing being explained. "She
explained something to me" has "something" as the direct
object and "me" as the indirect object. "Tell" can
be used the same way: "She told something to me" is correct,
but so is "she told me something" -- but that's not the case
for "explain." I'm not sure why but the
difference might be because "explain" comes from Latin and
"tell" comes from Anglo-Saxon, which have different grammar.